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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump plans to push ahead with a controversial call for the death penalty for some drug dealers as part of a larger initiative to fight opioid abuse, a senior White House official said Sunday.

But in a conference call with reporters, a senior administration official declined to provide any examples of ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Like Chicago's downtown on St. Patrick's Day weekend, a river of green has flowed through TV sets ahead of Tuesday's primary vote, as candidates for Illinois governor have spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising during the long campaign.

The final weekend of in-person campaigning supplemented the nearly $65.7 million spent ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO -- At a faith-based pregnancy center here, rooms are crammed with baby supplies, new and used, for expectant mothers, and a medical office contains equipment to allow pregnant women to view their fetuses.

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass," reads a saying on a wall, "but learning to dance in the rain."

WASHINGTON -- About 200 California crisis pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents now offer free goods and services to pregnant women -- and state law says they also have to tell them information about abortions.

We shouldn't have to do that, say center officials.

It'll be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide, and Tuesday, the court will...Read more

WASHINGTON -- By justifying tariffs on steel and aluminum in the name of national security, President Donald Trump has threatened the global trading order.

For decades that order has been underpinned by the World Trade Organization, whose 164 member-states have agreed to abide by WTO rules for open trade and settling disputes. The United States...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- President Donald Trump is seeking more than $20 million in damages from the porn actress who is trying to void the confidentiality deal that requires her to keep quiet about her alleged affair with him, according to court papers filed Friday by his attorneys.

Stormy Daniels has breached her confidentiality agreement at least 20 ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Eighteen months before Nikolas Cruz shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, staff members were so worried about his fascination with guns that they banned him from practicing shooting skills with the JROTC, according to mental health records obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

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WASHINGTON -- Big money to help areas in Kentucky and other states ravaged by the coal industry's slump could be part of the last big budget bill Congress considers before the November election--but the funding faces a lot of stiff competition.

Congress has until March 23 to fund much of the government through Sept. 30 or trigger a partial ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congressional investigators have learned that a longtime attorney for the National Rifle Association expressed concerns about the group's ties to Russia and possible involvement in channeling Russian money into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the matter say.

WASHINGTON -- The Russia investigation has landed squarely in the sleek black Manhattan skyscraper where President Donald Trump made his mark as a freewheeling real estate developer more than three decades ago.

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III reportedly issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization in recent weeks, seeking an array of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- It all happened in less than a minute. Three police officers arrived outside a small house with a chain-link fence near the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. They were responding to a "check welfare" report of a woman hacking at a tree with a knife. They saw a young woman emerge from the house holding a large kitchen knife ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The White House has refused to comply with all three investigations by the Republican-controlled House into the questionable behavior of President Donald Trump's top aides, including Cabinet secretaries and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. And Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are being ...Read more

As they try to regroup from what looks like an embarrassing special-election loss, however, it's not clear what they have for Plan B -- especially since Pennsylvania's leading Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate have so far taken the kind ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- President Donald Trump returned to Missouri for a third presidential visit Wednesday to tout the benefits of his tax cut plan, promising a group of workers and business executives gathered at Boeing Co. in St. Louis that a "phase two" of tax reform is coming.

"It is wonderful to be back in this great state. This was about the first...Read more